A Non-Profit Center for Crafts Education

Founded in 1954, the non-profit Brookfield Craft Center has been
promoting and preserving the skills & values of fine craftsmanship through
innovative educational and exhibition programs for over four decades. The
Center strives to engender creativity, fine design, and quality
craftsmanship. The Center offers one of the widest and most varied hands on
workshop curriculums in the nation in more than 200 topics each year. In
1982 Brookfield Craft Center received our state's highest award for
excellence in the arts, The Connecticut Arts Award.

In addition to the traditional subjects of ceramics, weaving, metalsmithing,
woodworking and glass, the Center offers many uncommon topics including boat
building, business and marketing, and decorative arts. Workshops are taught
by nationally respected visiting artists who come to the Center from across
the nation.

The campus is located in Brookfield, Connecticut, ten miles north of Danbury
on Route 25 overlooking the Still River. Facilities include: seven teaching
studios, an exhibition gallery, a retail shop, housing for visiting faculty
and administrative offices which are housed in four colonial vintage
buildings on two and a half acres.

The Center offers extensive scholarship programs plus an innovative
hour-for-hour volunteer work/study program. The Center is support primarily
by tuitions and retail sales with supplemental funding coming from federal,
state, and private sources.

The Center publishes a quarterly program guide. It is available free of
charge by contacting the Center.

Brookfield Craft Center the Center is recognized as one of the finest
nonacademic schools for creative study in America. The Center welcomes those
with an interest in creativity and fine craftsmanship to participate without
regard to race, religion, or national origin.

Contact the Brookfield Craft Center

Brookfield Craft Center

P.O. Box 122
Brookfield, CT 06804-0122

phone: 203-775-4526
fax: 203-740-7815

Directions:

Brookfield Craft Center is located on Route 25 in Western Connecticut just
east of the Intersection with Route 7. About one hour's drive from
Hartford, New Haven, Stamford or White Plains. Take Exits 7 or 9 off
Interstate 84.